Kincaid for Congress 2028 – Washington’s 1st District

I am running for Congress in Washington's 9th District in 2028. This year I ran in the 1st District. I did not make the top two. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. I am still working through the results. They were not what I expected. So what happened? Local news barely covered the 1st District race before the primary. Other races got real reporting. The 3rd District got a lot of it. Voters there had information to work with. Voters in the 1st District did not. The Seattle Times endorsed Suzan DelBene. An endorsement is not reporting. The Everett Daily Herald did the kind of reporting voters need. It provided the voters information on all the candidates in the election. The kind of information voters needed to make an informed decision. Unfortunately not everyone in the 1st District reads the Herald. Light coverage helps incumbents. Suzan DelBene has held this seat since 2012. The lack of real reporting before the primary kept her there. The lack of real reporting before t...

Kincaid believes socialism is the wrong direction for the Democratic Party and for America. He says so plainly because too few Democrats will. The facts are public. A CNN poll released July 30 found about a third of Democrats and Democratic leaning adults now identify as democratic socialists. The Democratic Socialists of America reports its membership more than doubled since 2024. Democratic socialist candidates defeated sitting Democratic incumbents in primaries this cycle. This is a movement inside the party  not a fringe. The organization's published program speaks for itself. The DSA platform calls for defunding police as a step toward abolishing police and prisons. The platform calls for abolishing ICE and ending deportations. The platform calls for ending all American military and economic aid to Israel. Van Jones  a lifelong progressive called these ideas regressive. He said supporting Hamas is not progressive. He said no police, no prisons and no borders is not pr...